International Journal of Fracture - Special Issue: Structural Integrity
Guest Editors:
Prof. Chinthapenta Viswanath, IIT Hyderabad, India
Prof. Joshi Shailendra, University of Houston, USA
Prof. Chandrasekar Srinivasan, Purdue University, USA
Submission Status: Closed
Summary and scope
This Special Issue invites contributions on the relevance and uses of fracture, fatigue, and damage. Original contributions in the broad areas of structural integrity pertaining to brittle, ductile, polymers, and elastomers fracture behavior, fatigue, and damage will be considered. Review papers comparing various experimental and computational benchmark fracture problems are also welcome.
This Special Issue is by invitation only.
Submission guidelines
All papers must be prepared in accordance with the Instructions for Authors at: https://www.springer.com/journal/10704/submission-guidelines (this opens in a new tab). Authors should submit via the online submission site (this opens in a new tab) and select article type “SI - Structural Integrity”.
Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the Special Issue. All papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation by at least two reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editor-in-Chief.
Meet the Guest Editors:
Viswanath Chintapenta is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at IIT Hyderabad. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in Civil engineering from MVSREC, Osmania University, a Master's in Aerospace Engineering from IISc Bangalore, and Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics from Brown University. His research interest is computational solid mechanics: Fracture Mechanics, Bio-Mechanics and Additive Manufacturing.
Shailendra Joshi is Kalsi Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Houston (UH). Prior to joining UH, he was an associate professor (2015-2018) and an assistant professor (2008-2014) at the National University of Singapore. During 2005-2008, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He earned his PhD in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2002. After a short stint as a visiting scientist at the University of Stuttgart (2002), he worked as a research engineer at GE-India Technology Centre (2003-2005). His research interest is in understanding, modeling and controlling material responses through the mechanics of defects and failure processes at multiple length-scales and time-scales. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER (2021). He is an Associate Editor of Mechanics of Materials.
Srinivasan Chandrasekar is Professor in the Schools of Industrial Engineering and Materials Engineering (courtesy) at Purdue University, where he also directs the Center for Materials Processing and Tribology. His research and teaching interests are in manufacturing, structural materials, fracture and tribology. His recent contributions all stem from the use of in situ high-speed imaging techniques to characterize material plastic flow and fracture phenomena at high spatial and temporal resolution. Besides enabling phenomenological discoveries pertaining to large-strain deformation, fracture and stability of plastic deformation modes, the work has led to commercialization of materials processes (R&D 100 award, 2010). Dr. Chandrasekar is a Fellow of the ASME, the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), and InSIS (Indian Society for Structural Integrity). Recent awards include the ASME Milton C Shaw Manufacturing Medal (2019); and the Anders Gustaf Ekeberg Tantalum prize (2021), awarded by the world trade body for tantalum and niobium.